Yes I know I’m a little late to the punch on this one, but to honest I stuck the whole season on my DVR and watched it in two sittings. Before I get to the important stuff, can’t they find 25 girls with different names? I mean having two girls named Sarah and two others (Carrie and Kerry) whose names sound the same is just annoying, not to mention the presence of Kristen, Kristina and Kristine. Speaking of Kristine, wasn’t it a little weird that she fell in love with him? This psycho claimed to be employed by the government in some top secret form, completely creeping out host Chris Harrison in the “Women Tell All” episode. At least for the first time in show history no one was employed in pharmaceutical sales. Overall, however, I do think this was one of the better seasons. The format or lack thereof, was much better. Charlie immediately got two minutes with each of the girls (who didn’t have time to get made up) and cut five right away. Normally it is a group setting where some girls really never have a chance to speak to the guy before 10 go home. Another change was that the individual dates were sudden death, a rose to stay the week or a kiss goodbye. Two girls suffered the latter and had their bags unceremoniously taken away. The first was Megan who I thought was not bad looking before changing her hair color to “blonde” although it really never got there. She fell into the trying too hard trap. The other sudden cut was Kara and I thought it was cool of Charlie to keep her around a bit after finding out she had a nine year old daughter. Conversely, I’m glad he didn’t give a charity rose to the token black girl Kyshawn.

Aside from being kiss happy like every other bachelor, I think Charlie might have set the record for doing the wild thing. I believe it started in Edmonton with Kimberley Choma and her enhancements. The two of them never had anything in common, and it was obvious he liked her for the silicone. When it was over he probably realized she is also packing about 15 extra pounds and cut her. Heaven only knows what three Canadians were doing on this show by the way, and it was pretty funny when recently cut Jenny Adams crashed his hometown date with Kimberley.

Anyway, that left him in Aruba with the final three. First up was Sarah Welch on the beach. Considering that at the last part of the date that we saw there was never any mention of going back to his suite to spend the night it seems pretty obvious he took care of business right there, don’t you think? By that same token, Sarah Brice certainly wasn’t giving it up and you had to know Krisily would be down for sex after “nana” told her she had to get him in bed and “use her powers” to get him. That could have been the best single scene, perhaps making ten mostly crappy seasons worthwhile. After testing two of the girls, you just knew he had to keep Sarah Brice in the hopes he still might add her to his hit list. That left Sarah Welch out of luck because picking between two girls named Sarah would be too weird. Am I the only one that thought big Sarah was on some sort of drugs? She was way too high strung.

The strangest part of this show was yet to come because he decided to “date” both girls in the “real world” before making his decision live on the finale. This also gave him the unique opportunity to watch all of the broadcasts, something that had to hurt Krisily after she acted like a complete, well witch with “B”, especially at the beginning of the show. This had to be a turn off and she was clearly the front runner after his friends took to her and other than his one buddy little Sarah never even met his friends, even during the extra dates. That buddy called her controlling, not something a player really looks forward to having as a girlfriend.

What I’m leading up to here is that I think he wanted to pick Krisily. He even started to knock on Sarah’s door when he went backstage to deliver the “you’re not the one” speech. Instead he cut Krisily and wept like a little girl while telling Sarah he would be the “best boyfriend she has ever had”. Am I the only one who can’t believe he said that? Something was really wrong about how this show ended. He felt trapped at the last moment by Krisily packing her bags to move in with him and probably was a little uncomfortable with her mom who is not exactly the model of normalcy. What we’re left with is a franchise saved, barely, because #8 is coming after the series is skipped over in the hopes people will actually care next time. Krisily as The Bachelorette is probably not going to happen, which is a good thing, and I would love to see them seek out a fresh girl (something they have never had) and 25 decent looking men.